Exclusive Interview with the President Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Sardar Masood Khan
Sardar Masood Khan is the 14th President of Azad Jammu and Kashmir. A career diplomat, Masood Khan was Pakistan’s Permanent Representative in the United Nations missions in New York...
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Afghanistan’s Unprecedented but Narrow Window For Peace
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Post COVID-19 World Order: How Different Will It Be?
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The COVID-19 pandemic, termed as a “nuclear war in slow motion”, has exposed the global leadership crisis and the vulnerability of the international community to deal with the...
Oral History Interview with Amb.Shamshad Ahmad Khan, Former Foreign Secretary of Pakistan
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Afghanistan: The Next Theatre in the U.S.-Iran Conflict
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Since the momentous events of the Iranian Revolution of 1979, ties between Iran and the U.S. have followed a predictable pattern, typified by acrimony and recrimination....
Sunderji Syndrome: Understanding India’s Conventional Military Modernization
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“Dreams of ‘disarming first strikes’ leading to the temptation to ‘go first’ and the consequent instability of Small Nuclear Power equations are think-tank myths”
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The U.S. withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in 2018 and the recent assassination of Gen. Qasim Soleimany has generated fears of a possible Iranian...
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Considered by many as a revolution in warfare, the emergence of new technologies and the incorporation of (AI) in the military by states are transforming the dynamics and...
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